עַלְמָה
alma · young woman
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H5959 · appears 7 times in the Bible
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alma (עַלְמָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “young woman”.
Of marriageable age.
How to say it
al·ma
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
Its senses in the Bible
- A maiden of marriageable age.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- young woman ×4
- young women ×3
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Words that come from it
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Genesis 24:43
look, I am standing by the spring of water. Let it be that the young woman who comes out to draw, and to whom I say, “Please let me drink a little water from your jar,”
- Exodus 2:8
The daughter of Pharaoh said to her, “Go.” So the young woman went and called the mother of the child.
- Psalms 68:25
The singers went in front, the players of strings behind, in the midst of young women playing tambourines.
- Proverbs 30:19
the way of the eagle in the heavens, the way of a serpent on a rock, the way of a ship in the heart of the sea, and the way of a man with a young woman.
- Song of Songs 1:3
For fragrance your perfumes are good; perfume poured out is your name; therefore the young women love you.
- Song of Songs 6:8
They are sixty queens, and eighty concubines, and young women without number.
- Isaiah 7:14
Therefore Adonai himself will give you a sign: Look, the young woman is pregnant, and will bear a son, and she will call his name Immanuel.